The Deception of the Genuine Self: Perfect Days and the Troubles of Cultural Capitalism
The Illusion of Inner Peace: Perfect Days‘ Pathological Abstraction and Stasis The narrative of Perfect Days is seemingly very simple Continue reading
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Taylor Swift Does Not Exist: In Memoriam Achim Szepanski
The original version of this essay was published as the afterword to the new edition of Achim Szepanski’s (1957–2024) In Continue reading
Semiotics of the End: The Backrooms
On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the American continent. On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Continue reading
Remembering Baudrillard’s Contaminated Discourse
The parasite serves as a useful simulacrum for post-modernism. Post-modernity engages us with a kind of viral discourse, which seeks Continue reading
The Filmic Non-Place: Notes on Devirtualization in Cinema
In the 2007 book Bioaesthetics philosopher and teacher of Aesthetics Pietro Montani writes about the increasing disempowerment of the external Continue reading
Semiotics of the End: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza
Like factories, shopping centres today exist only to efface their omnipresence. After “society as a whole takes the appearance of Continue reading
